Decorative wreath



Patented Nov. 3o, 192e.y

LOUIS O. BOUCHARD, F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DECORATIVE WREATH.

Application lcd July 8, 1926. Serial No. 121,125;

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a decorativeWreath or like structure which consists essentially of paper and whichmay be produced in solid or varying colors including metallic effectsand which while extremely decorative, bushy and attractive can besupplied at a comparatively low price.

Other objects of the invention will appear from tlie followingdescription at the end of which theinvention will be claimed but theinvention will be first described in connection With the embodiment ofit chosen for illustration in the accompanying ydrawing forming parthereof and in which- Figure 1 is a, diagrammatic view illustrative ofthe structure of the wreath.

Fig. 2 is a similar view and may be regarded as a cross-section of Fig.1.

Fig. 3 is an end view after the strips shown in Fig. 1 have beentwisted, and

Fig. 4 is a view of a Wreath.

In the drawing 1 is anumber of strips or plies, 2 is a wire inserted'between them, and 3 is a double line of stitching straddling the wireand securing the strips or plies together. Merely 'by way of explanationand not limitation there may be eighteen plies, more or less, and theymay be of crepe or plain paper of the same or of different colors andthey may be of metal foil. The strips between the cuts to curl.

The ends of the Wire 3 are joined together and -a loop 5 is provided.The strips or plies are then twisted around the wire so that a. bushyappearance is imparted to the structure.

ca ses where diferent colors are employed this produces a mottled orindistinc-t pattern effect which is quite attractive, for example ifseventeen of the plies or strips shoul happen 'to be green and one red,there is produced a wreath which viewed from' a little distance closel 1claim:

y simulates a holly wreath.

A wreath/comprising?, plurality of superposed strips of paper avingbetween them a wire' and having two rows of stitches e'xtending throughthe plies or strips and straddling the wire, the wire being of ring formand the strips or plies being notched or out herring-bone fashion andtwistedv on the wire.

Louis o. BOUCHARD.

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